The Antarctic ice shelves are breaking up in the most potentially destructive thaw since the last ice age ended 12,000 years ago. In Alaska, glaciers are melting an average of...
August is always the loony month around Washington. Last year, you remember, we had round-the-clock stake-outs of Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.), before Sept. 11 sobered the country up. This year,...
While most of the city was concentrating on questions of homeland security and a war with Iraq this week, the Bush administration announced a crucial development in international communications. The...
While the White House is sending American soldiers all over the world to "fight terrorism," two prominent stories out of the Bush administration over the last week tell a different...
When the diplomatic "quartet" met in New York this week to address the next step in the dreary and thankless job of building peace in the Middle East, I asked...
Who was he, really, this young American citizen who allegedly wanted to explode a "dirty bomb" in America? Was he Jose Padilla? Or Abdullah al Muhajir, the name he generally...
Since Sept. 11, and following years of simmering across Europe, the growing problem of illegal immigration to the continent has been boiling over. Country after country has been showing increased...
Except in the eastern corners of Europe, the Balkans wars of the 1990s are all but forgotten. An occasional headline awakens Western readers. A rare suspect of mass murder is...
There is nothing wrong with Jimmy Carter visiting Cuba this week and trying to sweet-talk Fidel Castro. There is everything right with the former American president speaking publicly to the...
This administration's predominant mood about the Middle East is revealed in some of President Bush's comments to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon this week. "I'm never going to tell my...